Apparently, the hate mongering isn't restricted to America.

And yet, the commonality seems to be that pesky Christian connection.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041210/stage_nm/religion_britain_blasphemy_dc&e=5

*smacks head on desk*

Imagine what the world would be like if there was no religious fanatacism...

*sigh*

Well. Some people are just contemptibly narrow in their outlook. I think that's the common attribute in these cases; not the religion.

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I must say I love your screen name. Is it Sister George as in The Killing Of?

Though I've not viewed it in a long while, I've got that on DVD.

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Need to find some time to watch you again. :)

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hey, c'mon, now this is progress. if it was a play about a gay drunken muhammed, they'd just blow up the theatre, issues fatwas calling for the death of everyone involved and be done with it. i think it's commendable that these citizens recognize the rule of law and are trying to subvert it with peaceful protest rather than violence.

i think it's a futile and pointless protest myself, but hey, different strokes for different folks. all it will succeed in doing is raising awareness about the show which prior to their vocalizing probably would have opened and closed in relative obscurity. ahhh, them crazy christians, the best word of mouth blasphemy can buy!

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nah, i'm painting fanatics. ours protest, theirs behead. it's progress.

for the most part christians and muslims and jews and hindus and heck most all religions are peaceful at this point in their evolution. most all have their irratiional elements, though. i'm just pointing out that christians fanatics at this point in time are generally more peaceful about showing their anger towards perceived slights to their religion than are some other religions' fanatics.

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If people were protesting a play about war in Iraq, this thread wouldn't even exist. Please look at your own level of tolerance before you go accusing other people.

Holy crap. For once, I agree with part of one of your posts, Goth. Must be all that holiday spirit in the air.

This isn't really true of the posters I know on this thread, but a lot of people here (and people on the left in general) could learn a little respect and tolerance for Christianity and religion in general. If you want respect, it has to go both ways.

Yes, Christians are much more peaceful. They just vote their bigotries into law, rather than murder people.

That's MUCH better.

Actually there were protests at the Edinburgh Festival production of Corpus Christi.

They did however have very well designed protest placards and seem to be held by rather dis-interested students which did raise suspicions.

When the production subsequently transferred to London there was more protests and some fools praying for my soul as I entered the theatre.

Respect for religion...

Once again I'll ask how many wars has the theatre started and how many deaths does religion have on it's supposed conscience.

I'm sick of tolerating the intolerant.

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Well there you go again. You're conflating religion with intolerance, which is complete bull****.

On my most religious days, I'm the world's least observant Jew. And trust me, coming from Israel, I know plenty about religious intolerance. But having faith doesn't magically turn you into some kind of rabid bigot. To assume otherwise is a form of bigotry in itself.

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No, I meant the "not murdering people" part. But I still contend you're voer-generalizing when you just say "Christians." They're bigots who happen to be Christian. Go to Israel and the bigots busy legislating will be Jewish. Go to other countries and they'll be Hindu or Muslim. Or even secularist. Christianity isn't a religion that lends itself to bigotry in some special way any more than Islam is a religion that promotes violence in some exceptional way.

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the bigoted legislation against gay marriage, the federal defense of marriage act was signed into law by the bigot in chief at the time, a democrat, bubba c.

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